Unable to make or configure under HPUX

[Doug Speck]

In attempting to re-compile under HPUX a library I maintain on several UNIX 
platforms, my Makefile terminates with the following:

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/local/lib/libbfd-2.9.1.sl.0
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory

I'm told this host has undergone a major OS upgrade since I last compiled, so 
after make failed I went to re-run configure, but that
no longer recognizes the host type ("checking host system type... Invalid 
configuration `hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11': machine
`hppa2.0w-hp' not recognized"), and the Makefiles built have the wrong compiler 
flags and ultimately fail with the same error as the
original Makefile.

Next I thought I'd build and run autoconf (plus automake and any other needed 
tools) on this HP to re-create the configure script,
but I cannot successfully build autoconf, automake, m4, or libtool.  Attempts 
to compile m4 and libtool fail with the same
"/usr/lib/dld.sl...libbfd..." error; autoconf won't build without GNU m4.  
Running the automake Makefile doesn't err off, but there
seem to be lots of empty symbols and "No suffix list" messages.

I believe I originally built the configure script for my library with autoconf 
2.13.  The version I've been attempting to build is
2.50.

Any suggestions?  Does anyone know what "libbfd" is?

Thanks,
Doug
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Douglas E. Speck
Computational Engineering Group
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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